All of us have pet peeves - things that just drive us nuts.
Sometimes we get so annoyed we start trying to convince others they
should be driven nuts by it, too. And when we annoy someone
by harping on our pet peeves, there's generally a pretty good
chance someone will… Read full post »

Image via Wikipedia I was watching One Life to Live while typing my
message about Tasha (yeah, watching a soap opera while depressed is
a pretty dicey concept to begin with, but no one’s ever
accused me of thinking ahead very well!) and at the end they played…

We’ve known for a while that Tasha’s time was growing
short, but haven’t wanted to put her to sleep because
she’s kept fighting so hard to keep going and had so much
life in her eyes. That light and life in her eyes hasn’t gone
anywhere, but her body is just…

I was browsing through a gallery at the Telegraph.co.uk featuring
professionally decorated cakes that, as they put it, went
“horribly, hilariously wrong.” There are a number
of examples, but the one below had me laughing the hardest: This
story clearly illustrates the problem with o…

Image via Wikipedia From the Orlando Sentinel: Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. predicted the United States would have a black president,
but his timing was a bit off. He saw the milestone coming a lot
sooner. You can see/…

Image via Wikipedia I think I may have mentioned something like
this before, but for some reason, tonight’s inability to
sleep got my brain working overtime, and I actually fleshed out the
idea some more…Â Oh, and I posted/…

About a month ago I posted about the Campbell family from Holland
Township, NJ, who had created a bit ofÂ a flap when
they publicaly protested the refusal by a local grocery store to
create a birthday cake with their son’s name - Adolph Hitler
Campbell/…

From Comic vs Audience (via Fritinancy) comes this delightful
flowchart showing the various categories of heavy metal band names,
broken down by various categories, starting with “Deadly
Things,” “Religion,” “Death,”
“Badass Mispellings” and &#8220/…

Image via Wikipedia Soap operas are generally considered
“fluff” or even “silly,” but they’re
also a place where social issues can be - and have been - addressed
in depth. Because the stories are often told over the course/…

Image by smiteme via Flickr Jason Linkins has an interesting column
up at HuffPo offering his thoughts on the raw footage that was
released this week from an interview she did with John Ziegler for
his upcoming documentary “How/…

Just a couple “housekeeping” notes In my never-ending
quest to make it as easy as possible for people to leave comments
and otherwise use the site, I have now added both Facebook Connect
and Google Friends Connect, along with OpenID and the/…

Yesterday, I had posted about a court case where a New Jersey court
had ordered a church in the state to allow a same-sex couple to use
property owned by the church for their wedding, in spite of the
church's opposition to homosexuality and gay marriage. I had said…

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Yesterday, I had posted about a
court case where a New Jersey court had ordered a church in the
state to allow a same-sex couple to use property owned by the
church for/…

Earlier today, bitchinmona posted a Twitter tweet about a shirt
she’d found at Kohl’s.Â It has a skull and
crossroads wearing a footbal helmet and the Nike
“swoop” trademark on it, along with the line “I
hit your honor student so hard… I DROPPED HIS G.P.A./…

Just in case your relatives are bringing up any of these tall
tales, you can set them straight: It’s not true that
unionized auto workers at Detroit’s Big Three make more than
$70 an hour, as claimed by some opponents of federal aid./…

To make it easier for y’all to sign in and comment,
I’ve added Facebook Connect to my login options, along with
OpenID, using a WordPress.com account or having an account directly
at the site.Â I think Google may also have a similar
system, and if they/…

I’m not a huge Christmas fan, and can’t remember the
last time I sent a card, but Xerox - and their partners (which
include both businesses and charitable organizations) are
sponsoring a program this year to send cards to our soldiers
overseas. The cards themselves were/…